New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- Larsen and Toubro is worth Rs.5.63 lakh crore. This morning Rs.156 crore of it has changed hands. Steel Authority of India, a company a seventh its size, has traded Rs.801 crore.

49 IST, down Rs.5.50 or 0.13 percent on Monday's close, and at Rs.4,081.10 on the BSE. It opened at Rs.4,085.00, has ranged between Rs.4,066.60 and Rs.4,095.00, and has turned over 3.81 lakh shares. That is 23.9 percent of an average full day, a pace of 0.58 times normal, and the lightest turnover of any of the seventeen large Indian companies this series follows. These are live intraday figures from a session that runs to 15:30.

Eight sessions have now closed or traded inside a band of roughly one percent. That is not indifference to the ...